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Why High Achievers Get Stuck After a Layoff

Hey friend, Whether you've been laid off or you're still at your job, what if the thing slowing you down isn't a gap in your skills, your network, or your timing but the fact that you've never quite let yourself hear what you already know you have to say to yourself? The first time I was laid o...

Jun 09, 2026

The people around you feel it too.

As some of you know, my son Ben graduated high school recently and for a little while it seemed like he was lost in a way that's hard to explain. Not in a dramatic way, not falling apart. Just... unanchored. He’s been restless in a way that made him hard to reach. You could feel the tension under...

Jun 02, 2026

The tired that has nothing to do with sleep

There's a specific kind of tired that has nothing to do with how much sleep you got. My phone had already sent me multiple notifications before I had even started my coffee this morning. All AI-related. A new tool update, multiple news alerts including OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman’s take on the job ap...

May 26, 2026 burnout continualchange overwhelm

The Moment Everything Changed

Some pivotal moments announce themselves. Others just quietly become the moment everything changed. I had a conversation this past week that has continued to echo in the back of my mind. Someone I've known for years who is smart, educated, with decades of experience in tech and is the kind of pe...

May 19, 2026

You Are the Author of What Comes Next

Seasons change. I tell my kids this when one of them is deep inside something hard and convinced it will always feel exactly this way forever. Some are longer than others. Some feel like they will never end. But you can always depend on the season changing at some point. Even if the change is so...

May 12, 2026

The one word that changes how you see yourself

Hey friend, I almost didn't send this. Not because I didn't have anything to say but because two weeks passed without a newsletter landing in your inbox, and I kept waiting for the right moment to come back. The one where I had everything wrapped up and the gap explained perfectly. That moment do...

May 05, 2026

The rarest thing in the room right now isn't strategy. It's steadiness.

There's a particular kind of guilt that's circulating right now among people who are good at their jobs and know it. It sounds like this: everyone else seems to be moving forward. Why am I still thinking about what to do? The AI transformation narrative has created a specific kind of urgency that...

Apr 14, 2026

The thing that determines how you'll handle the next disruption

I spent the last two weeks with COVID. Not the push-through lite version. The kind that makes you feel like you were hit by a truck, takes your concentration, your sense of forward motion, and replaces all of it with a ceiling you stare at wondering when you'll feel like yourself again. Around da...

Apr 07, 2026

Some lessons you learn in a classroom. Others you learn on the edge of a cliff at sunrise with no shoelaces.

When I was in my twenties, a few friends and I made one of those decisions that sounds adventurous in the planning and slightly reckless in the execution. We were going to hike into the Olympic mountains, find a crystal clear lake near the summit, and camp for the night. Spontaneous, underprepare...

Mar 31, 2026 intent uncertainty unmapped

The disruption is real. So are you.

I spent a full afternoon this week searching entry-level job listings with my 19-year-old son Ben. Ben is taking a year away from college to get real world experience. Smart kid. Curious. Full of potential he hasn't had enough time yet to fully realize. We've been spending a lot of time at the ki...

Mar 17, 2026 disruption reinvention skillseconomy

The story you tell yourself at 2am is running your life more than any strategy you’ve built during business hours.

I want to tell you something I don’t say often enough. The version of you that’s questioning everything right now - the relevance, the direction, the identity you spent years building, that version isn’t broken. That version is paying attention. I’ve been there. More than once. The one that stick...

Mar 10, 2026 anchor identity story

The most disorienting place in any transition isn't the ending - it's the space after it.

There's a number that stopped me this week. 80% of professionals say they feel unprepared to navigate what's happening right now. I didn't find that surprising. I found it unsettling and familiar. I've been that number. I lived six months of it with over 400 applications. My savings was counti...

Mar 04, 2026 reinvention

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